The look of utter horror on the faces of my luncheon companions was only visible for an instant, before they reestablished their habitual control over their emotions. But in…
The United States has been waged more major wars during my life time, than in any comparable period of American history. I have somehow survived World War II, Korea,…
I have been told that this little story is true. I have no reason to doubt its accuracy, but its importance lies, not in its historicity, but rather in…
DECODING CULTURAL CAPITAL “How hard is it to raise one’s hand, to approach an instructor after class, or to come to office hours to discuss a difficult assignment?” Let’s…
But the saga of Math 100, described in the previous entry, was not over. There was a final piece of the story to be revealed. At my fiftieth high school reunion I…
If there is a hero to this story, it is David Sunquist, a young high school math teacher, who volunteered in the spring of 1962 to teach a handful of…